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EPA Brownfields Initiative
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states,
communities, and other stakeholders to work together to
prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse
brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the
expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be
complicated by the presence or potential presence of a
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On
January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into
law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields Law, EPA
provides financial assistance to eligible applicants
through four competitive grant programs: assessment
grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and
job training grants. Additionally, funding support is
provided to state and tribal response programs through a
separate mechanism.
Background
EPA has selected the City of Delavan for a Brownfields
Assessment Pilot. Delavan (population 7,000) is located
in southeastern Wisconsin, approximately 40 miles
southwest of Milwaukee.
The city has targeted the Ann Street Railroad Corridor
for this Pilot. This corridor is a 14-acre light industrial
and commercial tract in a mixed residential area.
Potentially contaminated brownfield sites in the corridor
border a park, commercial area, residential homes,
schools, and churches less than a quarter of a mile from
downtown Delavan. Environmental contamination is
suspected at all 12 target sites in the corridor, and
contamination is known to exist at seven of the sites.
Known or suspected contaminants include chlorinated
solvents and heavy metals. The blighted properties in the
corridor have deterred current industries from expanding
or remodeling and have curtailed new business
development. More than 1,000 people live in areas
surrounding the project area, and 16.2 percent of that
population consists of low-income households.
Minorities account for 6.5 percent of this population.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: 05/01/2002
Amount: $200,000
Profile: City of Delavan, Wisconsin. The Pilot
targets industrial and commercial properties in a
downtown rail corridor that is curtailing new business
development in a low-income area.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant
contacts, additional grant information, brownfields
news and events, and publications and links, visit the
EPA Brownfields Web site
(http ://www .epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
(312)886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site
(http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: City of Delavan, Wisconsin
(262)728-1891
Objectives
Delavan's overall objective is to bring commercial and
professional businesses to the former industrial sites in
the rail corridor while preserving existing
neighborhoods adjacent to the area. To help the city
meet this objective, the Pilot will define the
contamination on eight of the 12 properties in the target
area and plan for the cleanup and redevelopment of the
entire corridor.
Activities
Activities planned as part of this Pilot include:
•	Conducting Phase I environmental assessments
on at least six sites in the target area;
•	Conducting Phase II environmental assessments
on four or more of these sites; and
•	Developing a composite cleanup and
development plan for the entire corridor.
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The cooperative agreement for this Pilot has not yet
been negotiated; therefore, activities described in this
fact sheet are subject to change.
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from
the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of
this information. The cooperative agreement for the
grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities
described in this fact sheet are subject to change.
United States
Environmental
Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20450
and Emergency
Response (5105T)
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